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Book Launch: Don Gayton & Meaghan Hackinen

Ryga Arts & Cultural Centre 9525 Wharton Street, Summerland, British Columbia, Canada

Come celebrate ecology and travel writing! Join well-known regional writers Don Gayton and Meaghan Hackinen for a Summerland book launch, presented in partnership with the Ryga Arts Festival. Gayton explores diverse aspects of Okanagan ecology and culture in The Sky and the Patio (New Star Books). Hackinen recounts an epic bicycle trip in South Away […]

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Book Launch: The Broken Heart of Winter

Fanny Bay Hall Fanny Bay

đź“š The Broken Heart of Winter by Judy LeBlanc is available to pre-order from Indigo, caitlin-press.com, and your local independent bookstore. đź“š In award-winning writer Judy LeBlanc’s debut novel, three women are linked by generations of hardship, displacement, and the mystery of an eighteenth-century French musket that has been passed down through the LeBlanc family […]

Caitlin Press Book Launch & Readings: Susan Braley, Judy LeBlanc, Andrea Routley

Fanny Bay Hall Fanny Bay

Judy LeBlanc will be launching her debut novel The Broken Heart of Winter and reading alongside Andrea Routley and Susan Braley. All three writers are published by Caitlin Press. Susan Braley will be reading from her recently released collection of poetry Tilling the Darkness and Andrea Routley will be reading from her novella collection This […]

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READING: Read Local: Author’s Open House

White Rock Library 15342 Buena Vista Avenue, White Rock, BC, Canada

On Sunday, April 23 at 2pm, join the Friends of the White Rock Library in celebrating local literature for the Read Local: Author’s Open House. This entertaining afternoon program features five local authors reading from their latest works. Read Local is a wonderful opportunity for avid readers and aspiring writers to connect with local literary […]

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Wild Prose Readings Presents: Earth-Shattering Prose

Paul Phillips Hall 1923 Fernwood Road, Victoria, BC, Canada

Join us for an evening of earthquake-themed readings! First, share YOUR work with us at the open mic. Then, we'll hear from Gregor Craigie, reading from his nonfiction book about earthquakes, On Borrowed Time; fiction author Jen Neale, reading from her novel-in-progress about the Vancouver earthquake, Frances Peck reading from her debut novel about the […]

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Ali Blythe and Jason Jobin Book Launch

Munro's Books 1108 Government Street, Victoria, BC, Canada

Please join Munro’s Books in celebrating new books by two local authors: Ali Blythe and Jason Jobin! Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art — Breaking open John Keats’s “Last Sonnet,” in his third book of poetry, Stedfast, Ali Blythe writes marginality into the canon, at once claiming, reviving, and un-fixing the Romantic […]

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Book Launch: Arleen Pare and Barbara Pelman

Munro's Books 1108 Government Street, Victoria, BC, Canada

Please join Munro’s Books for the launch of new books by two beloved local poets! Award-winning poet Arleen Pare’s latest collection, Absence of Wings, is both an intimate family portrait and a public documentation of how we, as a society, can fail to protect our children. Absence of Wings depicts the extraordinary and tragically foreshortened […]

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Wildlife Conservation Book Launch: Bob McDonald in Conversation with Greg Cummings and Sarah Cox

Munro's Books 1108 Government Street, Victoria, BC, Canada

Please join Munro’s Books in launching two new books by local authors about wildlife conversation!! We'll present Greg Cummings, author of Gorilla Tactics: How to Save a Species and Sarah Cox, author of Signs of Life: Fieldnotes From the Frontlines of Extinction in conversation with Bob McDonald, author of The Future is Now: Solving the […]

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